How to get a nicer and more practical emacs configurations.07.12.13

my example .emacs settings with rails mode and better buffer switching looks like this:

(setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d/rails" load-path))
  (require 'rails)

(put 'narrow-to-region 'disabled nil)

;;; Customizations go in emacs.d
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/emacs.d")

;; Tab using spaces
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)

;;; Display column numbers
(column-number-mode 1)

;;; Better buffer switching
(iswitchb-mode 1)

;;; Use font-lock-mode
(global-font-lock-mode 1)

;; default to better frame titles
(setq frame-title-format (concat  "%b - emacs@" system-name))

;;; Pretty colors
(set-default-font "-outline-Lucida Console-normal-r-normal-normal-13-78-120-120-c-*-iso10646-1")
(set-background-color "black")
(set-foreground-color "green")
(set-cursor-color "green")
;; Frames
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-outline-Lucida Console-normal-r-normal-normal-13-78-120-120-c-*-iso10646-1"))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "black"))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "green"))

;;; Use a wide window: put comments further right
(setq-default comment-column 65)

;;; Use "%" to jump to the matching parenthesis.
(defun goto-match-paren (arg)
  "Go to the matching parenthesis if on parenthesis, otherwise insert
the character typed."
  (interactive "p")
  (cond ((looking-at "\\s\(") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
    ((looking-at "\\s\)") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
    (t                    (self-insert-command (or arg 1))) ))
(global-set-key "%" `goto-match-paren)

http://www.crsr.net/Notes/Emacs.html

Anonymous